한국 공공도서관장의 사회의식 및 생활.봉사에 관한 연구

A Study on the Social Perception and Their Lives and Jobs of the Public Library Directors in Korea

본 연구에서는 한국의 공공도서관장을 대상으로 그들의 사회적 의식과 생활전반에 관한 여러 의식을 조사하였다. 이를 위해 도서관장들이 인식하는 사회계층의 소속감이나, 연간수입 및 사서직종의 특성상 여성취업에 관한 의식, 그리고 도서관장으로서의 업무상 능력의 저해요인 등을 조사 분석하였다. 그리하여 이러한 제 요인들은 현직 도서관장들의 의식속에서 어떻게 나타나는가, 그들의 본질적인 특성을 찾아보고. 동시 미래 한국 도서관계가 지향하는 도서관장직의 형태를 고찰해 보았다.

The purpose of this study was attempted to investigate the social opinion and their lives and jobs of the public library directors in Korea. The author attained data through questionaires by mail to about 180 directors of public libraries. The Major finding of this study are summarized as follows： 1) The more or higher the director"s revenue and degree of satisfaction for his/her revenur, and rich feeling in content for his/her job, the higher he/she recognize his/her social class. 2) Although many directors make it their principles to support for females to go to work. 87.4% of them also recognize the existence of discrimination by sex in attainment of their job positions. 3) Female directors feel more discriminated than male directors. Male are rather supporting or neutral for those discriminations. 4) The obstracles for conducting their jobs are insufficiency of budget for libraries. insufficiency of their job powers and so forth. 5) The Most disirable type of library directors is the mixed nature of type of research specialist and administrative specialist. Only the research talent is not sufficient for a library director and the administrative specialty is also strongly expected to the director.ctor.